Wood-splitting machine



(No Model.)

I R. G.'BROGK.

WOOD SPLITTING MAGHINE. r I

No. 256,425. Patented Apr.11,1882.

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UNITED STATES ROBERT G. BROOK, OF CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA.

WOOD-SPLITTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 256,425, dated April 11, 1882.

Application filed'November 28, I881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT G. BROOK, of the city of Cedar Rapids, in the county ofLinn and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements-in Wood-Splitting Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to construct a machine for splitting wood in such a mannet that it shall split the wood rapidly and satisfactorily, and shall remove the same to a suitable distance ,from the machine, and deposit it in a pile or piles with but little effort on the part of the operator.

The invention consists in a rotary splitter, to the side of which is attached a carrier operated by a belt or other mechanism connected with the main shaft, which carries the split wood away from the machine and deposits the same at a convenient distance therefrom.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 represents a plan view of the ma, chine, and Fig. 2 a side view of the same.

A is a strong frame, upon which is mount-- ed a revolving shaft, B, carrying a heavy cleaver, 0. Motion is imparted by means of the pulley E, and the same is kept uniform through the heavy balance-wheel D. The stick of wood to be split is placed upright.- on the roughened bed-plate. L and held loosely between the hands of the workman while the cleaver splits it as fine as may be required. At the side of the machine, within easy reach of the operator, is attacheda carrier, F F, similar in general construction to the carrier This may be a single carrier or double, as shown in the drawings, in which case it piles twice as much wood, and may be used to separate the hard from the soft wood as fast as split.

. The apron K K is operated by means ofthe belt or chain I passing from the pulley H on the main shaft to the pulley G at the upper end of the carrier F. When both carriers are in use, another belt or chain, J, passes. from the pulley G at the lower end of the same carrier to the pulley G at the upper end of the carrier F. The endless apron K communicates motion to the pulley G G and thence to the other apron in the manner described. An angular partition, M, prevents any mixing of the wood when or the other.

thrown on the one side ters Patent, is-

The'machine is further. improved by the attachment on the opposite side from the carrier of a table, 0, upon which the wood is piled bework much more rapidly than he'could do otherwise.

Motion may be imparted to the machine by power or by hand, and different ways of communicating motion to the aprons will suggest themselves, though the one described is believed to be the simplest and best.

The object of the carriers is of course to convey the split wood to acousiderable distance from the machine and leave it in a pile or in piles. I am aware of no device that performs thisoperation. Without such a device the operator is obliged to throw the split wood to a distance at a great expenditure of time and Otherwise the wood will collect strength. close around the machine and in a short time obstruct its operation. These carriers, being long and elevated at the outer end, admit of a large body of wood being split and piled without the removal of any part of it to a greater distance. The. saving in time and trouble is therefore very important. As much may also be said of the arrangement for separating the wood as fast as split without extra exertion on the part of the operator. By this means hard and soft wood, or first-class and inferior wood, may be separated and each piled by itself.

I am aware that heretofore wood has been split by rotary knives and like splitting devices, and therefore do not broadly claim this as rnyinvention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to be new, and desire to secure by Let- In a wood-splitting machine, the combination of carrier F, partition M, and carrier F, substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own witness my hand this 16th day of November, 1881.

J. M. ST.J011N, B. J. LUGORE. 

